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Cubs Get Swept Out Of LA

It wasn’t what you thought would happen when two outstanding pitchers faced each other. One a multiple Cy Young winner in Clayton Kershaw and the other a multiple World Series champion in Jon Lester. I thought it would be low scoring, how about yourself? Nope. It turned out to be a 9-4 series sweep by the hometown Dodgers.

“It sounds like fiction to me, but it happened,” Joe Maddon said. “I have not seen [Kershaw] like that. We were on him. It’s just one of those days. Both of them are very good, they’re outstanding and neither one had a good day and [the Dodgers] got us.”

Something out of an old Twilight Zone episode, where Kershaw gave up three home runs and the Dodgers, with their stingiest bullpen in the National League, squeaked by the defending champions.

“We just have to play for today. You can’t worry about [going on] a run, you can’t worry about showing up and trying to go nine [innings] before you throw the first pitch, you can’t worry about trying to go 3-for-4 before your first at-bat. You can’t worry about [going on] a run, you can’t make runs happen. You can’t make anything happen in this game. We have a good team. It’s just a matter of showing up day in and day out and putting our work in. It’ll come, it’ll click. We’ve had little spurts, and that’s been great. We just have to worry about tomorrow and go from there.” Jon Lester said.

The Cubs will have to take the sting they felt in the series loss off to San Diego and try to boost their league low of .217 batting with Runners In Scoring Position. Which is a surprising stat from the champs. Add to the fact that they’re 25-24, the Cubs are in a rough spot. They’re almost at the halfway mark and in a sport where having under 95 wins is considered a sub par performance, the Cubs had better find a way to dig deep and fix what’s ailing them.

“I don’t see any reason to worry, especially given what we did last year,” reigning National League MVP Kris Bryant said. “There is no need to worry. You’re going to have your good years, you’re going to have your bad years. Your good starts, your bad starts. This is an average start; it’s not a terrible start. Sometimes it happens. We’ve spoiled ourselves with last year and that start. I guess it’s a good thing to have those expectations because we do, too.”

What Bryant isn’t taking into consideration that yesterday, the Cubs walloped three home runs in the losing effort. Nope, it’s the old cliche about the Cubs having to move the runners. Small ball.